In this case, Kelly cherrypicked remarks by the head of the DOJ’s civil rights division, Vanita Gupta, to suggest that she was stuck in some racial-grievance past.

Her voice dripping with disdain, Kelly summarized Gupta’s analysis of distrust between black communities and the police as, “We shouldn’t be surprised that cops are acting like this or people are against them because of slavery and Jim Crow.”

What Gupta actually said is that the historic role of police in enforcing racial atrocities is “in part the product of historical awareness about the role that police have played in enforcing and perpetuating slavery, the Black Codes, lynchings and Jim Crow segregation.” Which, by the way, Kelly never disproved. But Gupta also said quite a bit more about the problem.

It is also the product of lived experience, of negative interactions that individuals — or their family members, friends, or neighbors — have had with law enforcement. Something as quietly humiliating as being mistreated during a traffic stop, or being followed in a retail store. These stories can circulate through a neighborhood — or these days, across the nation via the web and social media — and they can build up over time into a painful narrative that divides community members and police.

The lack of trust also undeniably results from our criminal justice policies over the last few decades, and the concentrated impact they have had on communities of color and people living in poverty. Law enforcement practices such as the stopping and frisking of young black men based on stereotypes. Sentencing policies that result in mass incarceration, particularly of people of color. And the devastating consequences that convictions have had on individuals’ ability to find work, secure stable housing and reintegrate as full members of society. These are deliberate policy choices that we made over the last several decades. We bear the responsibility to confront their consequences.

Malkin sneered, “They have one filter and one filter, only: race, race, race.”

As if Kelly isn’t fixated on the subject, herself. But she murmured her agreement with Malkin.

“And really what she’s saying at base is, the cops are bad because they enforce the law as it was written by politicians,” Kelly added.

Did Kelly even read the speech? Gupta specifically noted in her comments above, how forces beyond the police are at fault. Furthermore, she also expressed a great deal of sympathy for police in her comments:

The overwhelming majority of the women and men who police our streets do their jobs with honor, pride and distinction. Most of these individuals are driven to the police academy out of a commitment to public service and a desire to make an impact in their communities. As the senseless and tragic assassinations of NYPD Officers Rafael Ramos and Wenjian Liu this spring, the shooting of two officers in Ferguson in March and the tragic injuries inflicted on officers in Baltimore a few weeks ago, remind us, officers do all of this at considerable risk to themselves.

I am struck everywhere I go by the wide gap in empathy and common language to discuss these problems. Because in the very same cities and rooms where I speak with folks in the community, I hear from law enforcement who emphasize their responsibility to enforce the law and how they are doing the best job they can. They feel attacked and undervalued. They talk about how the actions of a few bad actors have tarnished the whole profession. They talk about the fact that department budgets have been slashed over the last several years, resulting in drastic cuts for community policing and neighborhood patrols. They talk about how they are constantly making split second decisions and people don’t account for the thousands of times situations don’t escalate and how the daily stress of their jobs take a toll.

“Straight news anchor” Kelly didn’t ask for anything like proof. Instead, she changed the subject to prod Malkin into racial attacks on Michelle Obama. Malkin wrote a venomous column about Mrs. Obama’s recent speech at Tuskegee University - that sent Fox into a racial tizzy. Kelly euphemistically described Malkin's column as “rejecting” Obama’s thoughts on race. Here’s a sample:

I don’t care what color you are: This arrogant exercise of first lady privilege — invoking false stories to stoke racial hostility and score political points — is patently offensive. There’s enough demagoguery in the public square. The Aspen ski-vacationing, haute couture-wearing, Hollywood elite-chumming first lady’s delusional discrimination fables are fuel on a raging fire her husband has failed to alleviate with billions of dollars of government “investments,” programs, summits and photo-ops.

The two started on a tear of racial malice. Some excerpts:

MALKIN: She’s a master of this kind of social agitation….

KELLY: We are seeing more and more a culture of victimization in this country, Michelle.

MALKIN: It whitewashes the true root causes of the problems in these urban communities.

KELLY: It just takes away people’s sense of empowerment. That’s how we get out of these situations. …It takes away your power to send a message you are a victim and you will remain a victim unless the man gets his foot off of your neck.

Ironically, as this festival of hate wound down, Malkin boasted about the optimism of conservatives:

MALKIN: Conservatives haven’t done a good enough job of outreach to these communities. …We have a shared principle and a shared interest in making sure that we can lift people up, that it’s a message of optimism and individualism, not this kind of dark, dank collectivism that keeps people down.

She also said inner cities have a “crab in the bucket” syndrome in which whenever one crab tries to crawl out, the others try to grab him and drag him down.

No, because that meant spending five less minutes on Stormfront before she aired the segment. That’s all I have to say about her at this point.

As for Malkin, this is actually an improvement from how bitter and far gone she’s become on her blogosphere ventures. While I do still somewhat feel sorry for her because of all the things her social media and non-political blog entries imply is going on in her private life… She’s coming unglued.

More unglued, for those of you who think she’s already there.

The woman genuinely needs help- She’s dealing with a lot, coping poorly, and the people around her are exploiting it to up her venom. Even for how much I hate Malkin, no one deserves how she’s gonna end up if people don’t stop what they’re doing. And no, I’m not giving a pass to Malkin on anything, because she burns through her goodwill as fast as she gets it taking her problems out on the wrong people, but GOD!

And I’m just gonna say it: If she looked like Leggy Meggy, her employers would actually be helping her, instead of channeling it into more aggressive agenda speak.

Oh, and for the person who called Malkin a chink on this thread? Guess how many fingers I’m holding up for you and your need to use those terms.

I beg to differ, dear Jane. You may not hear such evil garbage on the TV channel, but the true believers reveal their truly reptilian inner selves on Fox Nation and the almost as bad GretaWire. It’s monkey this and monkey that, homo hate, death wishes, even death threats. And Fox does S.F.A. to tone it down. That Watters creature of O’Reilly’s is the nominal editor of the Fox Nation swamp. Caution: You’ll need to shower after you visit. Maybe twice.

@ Antoinette From this moment forward, I will call that longtime perennial sewage-filled hate-spewing reich-wing loudmouth Michelle Malkin the following:

“MITCHYTHEBITCHY”
;^)

For starters, here’s another of Mitchy the Bitchy’s TOTALLYSMUGANDINCREDIBLYARROGANT quotes:

“Conservatives haven’t done a good enough job of outreach to these communities. …We have a shared principle and a shared interest in making sure that we can lift people up, that it’s a message of optimism and individualism, not this kind of dark, dank collectivism that keeps people down.”

THAT IS NOTHINGBUTPURE 100% BULLS**T!!

It should be PAINFULLYOBVIOUS to all the THINKING people who post here that Mitchy the Bitchy clearly will NEVER, EVER realize this IRREFUTABLEFACT:

THERE IS ABSOLUTELY, POSITIVELY NO SUCHTHING AS A “SELF-MADE” INDIVIDUAL!!

In other words, ABSOLUTELY, POSITIVELY NO ONE in America lives well or earns a living without PROTECTIONANDEMPOWERMENT BY THEGOVERNMENT!! This includes TAXWRITE-OFFSANDOTHERDEDUCTIONS — and I believe it’s VERY, VERYSAFE to assume that Mitchy the Bitchy probably CLAIMEDTONSANDTONS OF THESE for tax year 2014! Here is an article by the great George Lakoff that backs this all up:

And, once again, the FOX “news” pundits cherrypick the facts and reality in order to prop up their agenda. Kelly and Malkin did their viewers and the concept of “fair and balanced” a great disservice. How hysterically hypocritical of Malkin to be sneering about seeing things through filters. Pot, kettle, black.

I was unfortunate enough to catch Malkin on F&F yesterday. OMG. First of all, it brought back to me just how nice it’s been not seeing her on F&F for quite some time. All the snide vitriol really isn’t necessary to make a political/cultural point but it seems that she’s incapable of offering up her opinion without it. It’s rather disturbing to watch and does nothing positive to bring the undecided voter over the the right-wing. If she really is concerned about conservative “outreach”, she ought to think about reining in her own smarmy, belittling rhetoric instead of her lecturing Conservatives as a whole.

And secondly, her F&F appearance was rather Palinesque what with her throwing in a folksy cliche, slamming the “mainstream media” (while ignoring the huge bias at FOX “news”, of course) and overly-animated talking. She even went into “word salad” mode at moments. LOL!